Video: Lauryn Hill 4 Hrs Late But Says She’s Worth the Wait

*Who does she think she is? That’s what some folks are asking after having to wait four hours for Lauryn Hill to show up for her show last Tuesday, December 28, in Brooklyn at the Williamsburg Music Hall.

As you can imagine, things got a tad testy. After members of the audience began throwing cups and bottles on stage, Hill’s keyboard player taped a sign to his kit that read “I was on time.”

NY Times says that when Hill arrived shortly after midnight she was carried in to avoid the snow. By the time she hit the stage some fans had makeshift signs that read “you just lost one” and “this is insulting.”

Even though Hill apologized for being late, she was anything but apologetic as she told fans:

“I spent my entire 20s sacrificing my life to give you love. So when I hear people complain, I don’t know what to tell you. I personally know I’m worth the wait.”

Watch Lauryn Hill deal with the audience in the clip below:

After performing her first song, she noticed the sign taped to the keyboard and tore it down, telling the band member, “you trying to escape the bottles and the cups. Next time you take it, you take it like a man. We in this together, brother.”

I’m not waiting four hours for ANYBODY!!! I would consider myself being screwed out of my money for a ticket and bounce. L. Boogie need to get it together and get her azz off her shoulders and remember these fans put food on the table for her and her family and pulling off a stunt of this kind can have her crazy self at the welfare line.

Diva007.. YOU SHOULD NOT be screwed out of your money… I would be protesting to get my money BACK.. They woulda had a riot on their hands started by ME!!! IF I didn’t get my money back!

Dec 28 was only 2 days after the snow storm and it was a bit treacherous out there and all over so I can understand the issues with lateness. Public transport was just getting back to “normal”. She shoulda been more contrite!

In other words, Lauryn’s time is infinitely more important than any fans and/or attendees to the show. Your ticket said the show would start at a specific time. While there are sometimes complications from being able to start exactly at a given time or considering our cultural legacy (be that mythical fallacy or not) of not always being on time, 4 hours is beyond ridiculous.

I suppose you kept waiting and waiting and before you know it 4 hours had passed. But that is an awful lot to ask of an audience.

In an era where people complain about long emails and prefer to use acroynms to communicate, 4 hours is abusive.

People need to take into consideration, we all want to hear and groove to the old L Boogie not too mention the Miseducation tunes but she obviously is still not right mentally just by her actions. Her statements, her actions and her appearances,etc. That alone says, she still has some demons to deal with and its so unfortunate because she had genuine mad talent and could have taken the music industry by storm just like she did with the Miseducation…

this chick has lost her dayum mind! She talking about she sacrificed her entire 20’s for us….. ummm no bytch, you sacrificed your entire 20’s to put food on the table for all those rugrats and to afford the mansion you live in in NJ with all of them… Miseducation was the shat, but since then it has been a big BUST! If she don’t get her shat together soon, her fans will slowly fade away and she will become a one hit album wonder…..

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